Jan Mazurkiewicz

Jan Mazurkiewicz (27 August 1896-4 May 1988) was a Brigadier-General of Poland who was a Home Army commander during World War II.

Biography
Jan Mazurkiewicz was born on 27 August 1896 in Lwow, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He joined the Polish Legion during World War I, fighting at the Battle of Lowczowek and the Battle of Kaniow before serving in the army of the Second Polish Republic. Mazurkiewicz joined the Secret Military Organization (TOW) and Home Army (AK) during World War II to fight against Nazi Germany from within Poland, and he took part in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Mazurkiewicz and his wife escaped the city by dressing as civilians, but the Polish Ministry of Public Security arrested him after the establishment of the Polish People's Republic at the end of the war. He was imprisoned until he was granted amnesty in 1956, and he died in May 1988 back home in Poland, unlike many other former Home Army generals, most of whom were either executed by communist Poland or were in exile.